D&D outside the U.S.

[Jools]

I'm also in Japan but in the gaijin packed area of Kansai. I'm running a thriving game and could run my campaign three times over if I'd accepted all the players that have asked to join over the last year (it probably comes as no surprise that the people who move to Japan tend to be the geeky sort). The poor things have to put up with my noobie DMing but I'm getting better all the time. Its interesting to play with a mix of people from different countries.

As for buying stuff I think in this day and age you can just get anything you want via the interwebs. Easy peasy.

 

[Derulbaskul]

I'm from Brisbane, Australia. For most of the last eleven years I lived in Singapore and commuted, as it were, to Brisbane to run my games. I've been back in Brisbane for a year or so on business but am in the process of considering moving back to Asia so assume I will get my gaming in on my trips back to Oz as in the past.

I like to buy my books from one of two FLGSs but am finding I lack the patience to wait the four or so weeks after a book is released to actually find it there (not to mention it is a bit of a drive) so I quite often buy off Amazon now. It's a little bit cheaper, but not a lot, but I find it convenient as I travel a lot and it's nice to come back from overseas with a destroyed body clock and sit up until 5am reading Tomb of Horrors like I did last weekend....

I buy my miniatures only over the internet now.

First Philippines poster yay!.

You can find some books in Manila, and I understand Cebu and perhaps even Davao have good D&D communities, however where i live the support is non-existent so it becomes rather expensive to acquire the books, add to that the fact there's almost no groups here (i know of maybe 2 but their playing schedules dont allow me to join)

Talaga? I'm thinking of moving to Cebu later this year or early next year. I thought I was going to have to wait for my trips back to Oz to get some gaming in. Maybe I will find an English-speaking group in Cebu?

 

[Istar]

I didnt know they had D&D in the US, arent the books in English, how do the americans cope, does someone translate them into american for them ?

In New Zealand, which is an English speaking country, we just buy the English versions.

 

[Nichwee]

I'm from the UK - we have a pretty easy time getting the books, almost any games shop will have them.

Istar, the D&D books are in American not English actually -why Prestidigitation can "Color, clean or soil". Though they do have a "Light" cantrip and I seem to recall words like Light and Night become Lite and Nite in American, so maybe the books are in a mixed dialect

Luckily it isn't hard to decode the derivative language of American back into the parent language of English where necessary for us English speakers.

 

[Echohawk]

I'm in fairly rural North West province in South Africa. (Lots of compass points in that sentence!) There isn't a gaming store anywhere close to me, but that's okay since I do all my ordering online and have stuff sent to the post office.

As far as players goes, I'm lucky enough to have a fairly large pool of friends who enjoy gaming, so I run a D&D campaign one or two weekends a month, and I'm also playing in a World of Darkness campaign, although that went on a brief hiatus while we were hosting the soccer World Cup.

Living out in the middle of no-where is actually a slight advantage for hosting games. Once folks have driven for an hour to get here on a Saturday, they are fairly likely to stay the night and spend some of Sunday playing board games or something similar. We are fortunate enough to live in a large house, with plenty of space to house visitors.

(Which reminds me to say that if any ENWorlders find themselves in this part of the world, feel free to pop in for a visit. )

 

[Peraion Graufalke]

In the little corner of Germany where I live, the FLGS closed shop about 10 years ago. I've ordered D&D stuff online since I returned to the hobby with 4e; availability is usually very good (including getting stuff a bit earlier) and prices are no higher than the suggested retail price.
(My favorite shops are Dragonworld and Tellurian Games. Amazon Germany is way too slow nowadays and more expensive, though they're top for delivering D&D novels.)

There aren't many 4e players here that I know of; I count myself lucky to have 3 reliable players. We did have a large gaming community in the late 90s with about 30-40 people playing Vampire/Werewolf and either AD&D or DSA, and there are still AD&D and DSA groups active today.

 

[Askaval30]

Another Italian player here, currently living in the US. thanks to the wonders of modern technology I can game with my Italian groups by using Fantasy Grounds, an ideal setup with a couple of DDI accounts to get around the spotty availability of 4e books, especially in southern Italy.

 

[Vicar In A Tutu]

I live in Stavanger, Norway. We only have a single FLGS in town, and RPGs are a very small part of the store's business. I can definately understand why. Ordering the pathfinder core rulebook from Amazon, cost me about 190 kroners (31$). In the store, it would have cost me 499 kroners (80$). I mostly visit the store to look at new books, before I order them from Amazon. (To my defence though, I do buy boardgames at the FLGS.) The gaming community is very small and fractured in Stavanger, it consists of lots of different groups who have known each other since high-school and prefer to play at each other's homes. The store never arranges D&D encounters, gamedays or similar events, but the people who work there tend to be knowledgeable and friendly.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I didnt know they had D&D in the US, arent the books in English, how do the americans cope, does someone translate them into american for them ?

In New Zealand, which is an English speaking country, we just buy the English versions.

If you have not noticed the American spellings in the books by now, I hold out no real hope for you.

[MENTION=84242]Nichwee[/MENTION] Lite and Nite are about on the same spelling level as l33t.

Interestingly here in Japan, I have never met a British roleplayer. Aussi, Kiwi, USian, Canadian, all them, but not Brit. Wonder why. Just lucky?

 

[Nichwee]

@Nichwee Lite and Nite are about on the same spelling level as l33t.

Interestingly here in Japan, I have never met a British roleplayer. Aussi, Kiwi, USian, Canadian, all them, but not Brit. Wonder why. Just lucky?

Glad to hear it on the spelling front - the guy I heard that one from must have just been playing it up to take the piss.

As for Brit roleplayers in Japan, I can only assume that, like me, the "fly to the other side of the globe" bit puts them off.